Detroit has a middle class that’s nearly unobtainable for many African American and Latinx people, while economic growth continues for whites. Detroit Future City, a nonprofit that examines ways to improve economic equity for city residents, looked at a decade of data. “We should have opportunities for people to be able to live here in the city and be able to find a middle-class home, a middle-class neighborhood where they can grow their families or live as an individual and be really successful and have a really high quality of life.” —Anika Goss, Detroit Future City The organization’s study found the city lost 11 of its 22 middle-class neighborhoods with many Black middle-class residents moving out of the city. Neighborhoods like Midtown and downtown saw an increase in affluent white people moving in.